Hello my quilting friend!

, I had such a wonderful time in Houston for International Quilt Festival. If you're not familiar with Festival, it's held in the fall every year and is always in Houston, Texas.

I had the opportunity to meet so many wonderful quilters. You know, I could sit here all day just writing about it, but do you know what? Let me just tell you about it instead!

We've been getting lots of questions about our next quilt along. Yes, it's going to be a blast as we piece and quilt together with twelve super scrappy happy blocks.

Even better - this Friendship Sampler Quilt Along will begin on Thanksgiving day, November 22nd!

For the first time ever, I’ve designed FIVE different quilt sizes! Choose from baby, throw, twin, queen or king and follow the charts found in the Block 1 Pattern to purchase your materials and know how many blocks you will need to make from each pattern.

Each month I'll share the following tutorials on specific days:

1st Monday of the month - How to piece the block

2nd Monday of the month - How to quilt the block with your home machine

3rd Monday of the month - How to quilt the block on a longarm

No, you do not have to have a longarm in order to participate! I'm making the king sized version of the quilt so I have to make 2 of each block so I figured this would be the perfect way to use many different styles of quilting.

I can't wait to have a new king sized quilt finished this time next year.

This quilt is the perfect scrap buster! If you have a big collection of fabric scraps, you can get a head start by slicing your stash into 5-inch squares.

A true friendship quilt includes scraps collected from several friends. Over the past year, Dad and I have been slowly slicing up my entire fabric stash and you will soon be able to find a Stash Pack of thirty 5-inch precut squares.

I’d love to be a part of your friendship quilt and to see the fabrics I collected for years used in multitudes of quilts.

We’re going to limit one pack of squares per person and they will go on sale on Thanksgiving, November 22nd.

I’ve pinned a new quilt to my longarm and decided to quilt it with simple corner to corner quilting with rulers. 

This is a super simple style of quilting that’s guided by the seamlines or marked points on your quilt.

In this case, I’m quilting soft curving lines from corner to corner around 5-inch quilt squares. It was easy to position the ruler and stitch the curving lines using the Mini Slide Quilting Ruler.

The Mini Slide ruler was a great choice for this size of square because the curve is very gentle and fits nicely in a 5-inch square. The Super Slide Ruler would be a great choice for quilts pieced with larger squares.

Curious about starting your own ruler quilting? I have the perfect ruler quilting set available for both longarm and home machines.

Well , that it's for this week. I'm so excited about our Friendship Quilt Along and it feels great finally sharing some of the details with you on what we have planned.

Until next week, let's go quilt.

Leah Day